Linda, George and the perfect night

My mom's cousins, Linda and George, stopped by on Sunday night for a quick overnight.   George is a pilot, so they landed their little Cessna at the airport here in Walla Walla.  A quick, "we've landed!" call and off I go to pick them up.  The airport is about 7 minutes from the house.  In the we've landed call they asked what kind of car I drove because they had a lot of stuff.  I wondered to myself what they could have that was so big for just staying overnight.

When I got to the plane...WOW!  VEGGIES.  67 ears of corn, 3 boxes of tomatoes, and 2 gallons of green beans.  Plus their luggage and best of all George's accordion.  Home we went with a car full of veggies.  We processed and ate at least 47 ears of corn in the last 2 days. YUM.  Lot's went in the freezer for winter soups and lot's went to our bellies!

Sunday Dinner = locavore feast
Grilled Zucchini and Summer Squash (From our garden)
Garlic, Sesame, Ginger Green Beans (Beans from Linda and George's Garden and Garlic from our garden in Tennessee, harvested before we left)
Salt Potatoes (From Welcome Table Farm)
Cucumber, Tomato Basil Salad (From our garden and Welcome Table Farm)
Grilled Corn (From Linda and George's Garden)

Dessert
Blueberry Peach Crisp (Blueberries picked at local U-Pick farm, Peaches from an orchard that comes to the farmer's market each week from about 1 hour away)
Homemade Ice Cream (From local milk and cream)

Here is the dinner scene with George playing accordion in the background.  We spent a lovely afternoon cooking together in the kitchen enjoying the garden bounty.  After an amazing summer meal, George pulled out his accordion and serenaded us for the next 3 hours while we ate dessert, cleaned up the kitchen and put the boys to bed.  I felt like I was taken to a little french alps farm for the evening. 

This morning we got up and sent the boys to school.  Stuart had worked all weekend so he took the morning off and did a downtown walk with Linda, George, and I.  We stopped at the Walla Walla Bread Company for second breakfast of croissants and bread pudding.  Getting back to the house around 9:30 we loaded up the car and headed for the airplane.  Off they went, headed up to Couer d' Alane, ID to visit with some more cousins.  


Here we are in the bakery.

Here we are stopped on our walk to look at a cool way of using old wine barrel stays as a wall/bar.  Plus our reflection in the mirror behind the counter made a neat picture.